Donors concerned over conditions of Tamil camps: UN official

T V Sriram
Colombo, Oct 24 (PTI) International donors have
expressed "frustration" over conditions in Sri Lanka's camps
housing the displaced Tamils civilians and are less likely to
provide funding if they continue to restrict freedom of
movement of the community, a top UN official has said.

Neil Buhne, the UN Resident and Humanitarian
Coordinator for Sri Lanka, was quoted as saying by a UN
supported agency that there was "frustration over the closed
nature of the camps".
Buhne told this to the Integrated Regional Information
Networks (IRIN), which acts as a news agency focusing on
humanitarian issues.
"Among the donors we talked to, there is a hesitation
in terms of their assistance to camps over the next three or
four months if there’s not significant progress on people
returning, or larger numbers of people being allowed to
leave," Buhne was quoted as saying by IRIN, which is a project
of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA).
"Donor fatigue is really in respect to continuing
these closed camps...Donors have not said no, but they have
indicated their concerns to us," he underlined.
Nearly 300,000 people fled the fighting in the
country's northeast in the final months of the 26-year civil
war between the government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May. (MORE) PTI TVS
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